Creative Events: May 18 Weekend – Bikefest, ARTFEST and World Fiddle Day
Have you brought our your bike yet? This weekend’s the one to do it! Mountain Equipment Co-op is sponsoring a day celebrating all things two wheeled at Trinity Bellwoods park. Starting at 11 am MEC...
View ArticleFriday Fun – Stop Motion Videos
It never ceases to amaze me the incredible, international talent and creativity that can be found from my desk… All it takes is a little hunting and you can find some amazing stop motion animated...
View ArticleCreativity in Action – Liu Bolin, The Invisible Artist
Liu Bolin is a mixed media artist from Shandong Province in China. He uses paint to make himself invisible as an exploration of civilization and its development. He travels around the world and paints...
View ArticleMy Creativity Experiment – No Speaking, One Week.
That’s right. No speaking, at all, for one whole week. Anyone who knows me this is a pretty extreme experiment, I’m nothing if not chatty, but I’m spending the next week in silence so I can explore. It...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Shake? Limitations & Creativity
Embracing limitations can open up incredible creative horizons… Here’s a great TED talk from an artist who used a physical ailment expand his artistic expression instead of crushing it Also – Doors...
View ArticleMy Creative Experiment – Silence, Day Four.
“You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.” ~...
View ArticleMy Creative Experiment – Silence, Day Five.
After a number of great responses to yesterday’s post I’ve decided to write a blog each day for the rest of the week, to continue sharing the experience of my self-imposed silence in our city and the...
View ArticleCreativity in Action – Jason Silva
Jason Silva is a journalist, filmmaker and connoisseur of philosophy. For years he worked as a presenter for Al Gore’s network Current TV but now his work can be found on his youtube channel Shots of...
View ArticleMy Creative Experiment – 7 Days of Silence
So – seven days, no speaking. I woke up in the middle of the night to turn on the air conditioning and fend off the inevitable Toronto humidity and realized that I was technically allowed to speak. I...
View ArticleCreativity Camp at Soho House!
This past weekend we hosted our first Creativity Camp for Families at Soho House Toronto. It was such a great event. We had kids of all ages, parents, grandparents, twins and sibling groups dancing,...
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